The Left is Good Governing Itself into Obscurity • Virginia nullified three million votes overnight while Republicans go on a redistricting spree with no restraint. I saw this coming a mile away.

SCOTUS Gutted the Voting Rights Act and Sent Southern States Sprinting to Gerrymander • Within hours, Southern states staged an assault on majority-Black districts, threatening to send Black representation back to Reconstruction-

SCOTUS Gutted the Voting Rights Act. Here's How We Fight Back • The move didn't come out of nowhere. It's the culmination of a decades-long effort that's the logical result of a broken system that needs reform.

When Trump You, It’s not You, It’s Him • FBI Director Kash Patel is next out the door, but it’s a misdirect.

I Was in DC During the Shooting. Here's the Perverse Irony • Trump wanted to create a post-truth world. Now it's coming back to bite him.

We're Getting Hit with Patel's Hangover • What looks like damage control in a one-off scandal is actually a strategy to do far more damage to democracy.

Compromise Is Dead, and Some Democrats Are Finally Acting Like It • An excerpt from my book on why compromise keeps failing, and a look at the Democrats who are starting to move past it.

Trump Sank Viktor Orbán’s Reelection. It Can Happen Here, too. • Trump backed Hungary’s prime minister and helped end his 16-year rule, putting far-right leaders on notice: when voters are fed up, they show up.

The Real Reason Trump Keeps Getting Away With This • The disastrous impacts of the Iran War just keep coming. An exclusive excerpt from my upcoming book that explains how we got here.

What Happens When No One Holds Trump Accountable? I Asked a Top Democrat. • After talking to Ro Khanna, here’s what I learned Democrats are actually considering in response to Trump’s nuclear threat and the Bondi subpoena fight.

Pam Bondi May be Out, But She's Not in the Clear • Trump may be done with her as Attorney General, but there's still the question of her deposition before the House Oversight Committee.

Trump Tried to End Birthright Citizenship. Even His Handpicked Court Isn’t Having it • He showed up in person, only to walk out when the argument turned against him. The case calls into question long settled Constitutional norms.

Congress Broke TSA, Then Left Town. TMZ Got the Receipts • TMZ crowdsourced photos of senators fleeing D.C. while TSA agents went unpaid and airports descended into chaos.

What They’re Hoping You Don’t Notice This Week • A lot happened. Here’s what actually matters once you cut through the noise.

Tuesday Briefing: TSA, Explained • This is the biggest story right now. Here’s what’s actually happening and what it means.

I’ve been working on this for a year. It’s finally here. • My new book, The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World, is a wake-up call about how we got here and a playbook for how to actually wield power and build something stronger.

Pete Hegseth’s Attempt to Shut Press Out of Pentagon Doesn’t Hold up In Court • The court blocked a Pentagon policy that revoked journalists’ press credentials and essentially criminalized asking questions under the guise of “national security.”

Mamdani Is Over Bari Weiss' (C)BS, Calls Off Interview • One nasty tweet from Bari Weiss was enough to kill a CBS interview with Zohran Mamdani, and it’s textbook media censorship playing out in real time.

Trump's Soaring Gas Prices are a "Good Thing" for Anyone but You • Trump claims “we” stand to make a ton of money off the war in Iran. But the “we” does not include you.

Trump Started a War and You’re Paying for It at the Pump • Trump’s version of trickle-down economics starts with a spike in gas prices and seeps into the cost of food, airfare, shipping, and everything else you buy.

Kristi Noem Ran DHS Into the Ground. That’s Not Why She Got Fired. • Kristi Noem just found Trump’s red line, becoming the first cabinet member to be fired in his second term. But it wasn’t for the reasons you’d think.

The Texas Republican Primary: the Tremors Before the Earthquake • Republicans are facing the worst case scenario in Texas after chaos up and down the ballot put typically no-brainer incumbents into defense mode.

Even Republicans are Turning on Kristi Noem • In a scorching Senate hearing, Republicans went on the record calling out DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for her corruption and incompetence.

The real reason for Trump's Iran bombing • Trump is nothing if not self-interested. His attack against Iran helps him and his party more than meets the eye.

One Merger After Another: Trump Cronies Take Over CNN • CBS was the test case. Now CNN is next. A wave of corporate media mergers is reshaping who controls what Americans see, hear, and believe.

The Message Is Clear. The Infrastructure Is Missing. • A Substack exclusive conversation with Charles Duhigg on mobilizing vs organizing, and building movements that last.

Trump Just Repeated the Mistake That Cost Democrats the Election • In 2024, voters rejected the party that told them everything was fine. Last night, Trump tried to run the same playbook.

Trump’s State of the Union Will Deny, Deny, Deny Reality • He’s on defense, the midterms are looming, and Republicans are about to repeat the same mistakes Democrats made in 2024. We need to seize the moment.

Puck You: Women's Hockey Team Snubs Trump's Invitation • After winning gold, the Women’s team didn’t feel the need to play along.

Stephen Colbert Tells Brendan Carr: Go FCC Yourself • After CBS lawyers told Stephen Colbert to cut a segment, the Late Night host defied their orders and called out the egregious display of censorship live on the air.

5 Takeaways From My Interview With President Obama • In his first conversation since Trump posted a racist image of him online, President Obama talked about the state of the discourse, how to rebuild the party, and how the Democrats can move forward.

House Passes SAVE Act to Solve a Nonexistent Problem • The House just passed legislation requiring proof of citizenship to vote, even though documented noncitizen voting is virtually nonexistent.

Pam Bondi Lied Under Oath in the Epstein Hearings. It's Even Worse Than You Think.

Democrats Are Suddenly Winning Races They’re Supposed to Lose • When a slam dunk Republican candidate loses by double digits in Trump country, something has shifted.

“Case Closed” Is Not Closure: Epstein Survivors Demand Accountability • Survivors say the chaotic release of the Epstein files is not an accident, but another example of government failure that protects powerful elites while exposing victims to harm.

The Epstein Files Are Back And Trump Has No Defense • DOJ records contradict claims that Epstein had no co-conspirators, while Republicans set a precedent that could come back to haunt them.

Tulsi Gabbard is Trump’s Puppet in Attempted Election Takeover • A buried whistleblower complaint and a bizarre episode in Georgia suggest Gabbard has become a useful instrument in Trump’s ongoing effort to relitigate and control U.S. elections.

The Grammys Sounded Different This Year • Artists didn’t hedge or stay quiet. They spoke openly about immigration, power, and Trump. It’s a sign that the cultural mood is shifting.

Global Leaders Leverage the World Cup Against Trump • With the FIFA World Cup as leverage, allies are rethinking how to respond to Trump’s norm-breaking without sanctions or war

Justice Department Arrests a Journalist for Doing Journalism • Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents for covering a protest at a Minneapolis church. Multiple judges rejected the case. That didn’t stop the administration.

Political Pressure Is Forcing Trump to Backtrack After ICE Shooting • The king of “deny, deny, deny,” can no longer deny that the untenable situation in Minneapolis is a disaster of his own making.

Another ICE Shooting, the Same Tired “Self-Defense” Story • Just days after ICE agents shot and killed an unarmed mother of three in her car in Minneapolis, the agency has done it again.

The Hidden Story of Jack Smith's Testimony • Jack Smith’s testimony didn’t just expose Trump’s grievances. It exposed what Trump is choosing to focus on, and what he’s refusing to do.

Bully the Bully: Don’t Try to Appease Trump • Trump only understands one language. And everyone - the media, our allies, world leaders - is learning the hard way.

Bari Weiss Puts the BS in CBS • Internal emails showed that CBS producers worried a story about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis was flimsy. It ran anyway.

Lord of the Prize: Trump's Global Tantrum • An unhinged message to the Norwegian Prime Minister reveals how Trump’s personal grievances are driving U.S. foreign policy, and threatening global stability in the process.

After the Verizon outage, the Trump administration needs to touch grass, and here's why • The outage exposed the inner workings of the administration’s propaganda machine and how vulnerable it is.

Reality Check: They’re Lying to You About Minneapolis • What happened in Minneapolis, and how the Right lied about it in real time

Oil First, America Last • Trump sold out voters for oil and the chance to cosplay the strongman in Venezuela.

Nixty Minutes • Bari Weiss was installed at CBS to play nice with Trump-- and she delivered